Taking the watch and cash, the group drove away.
Li Du put the watch into the bug's black hole space. He had a real watch. Why would he bring a fake one? It was useless to him.
They stayed in a hotel for another night. The next day, they returned to Phoenix.
The mountain in Amengda, South Africa, had been purchased, and he could go there to develop it at any time.
However, Li Du planned to let Cole arrange for a diamond inspection team to explore and make a rough estimate of the mine. He was not in a hurry to develop it.
He wanted to settle the bet with Harry Winston, Inc. He wanted to take the shares of Carlston Fitz first!
Sophie had already returned to the villa. The five little ones had built their own nests in the spacious yard and divided up their territories.
Little Flathead, Ah Meng, had the largest territory, and the four little ones did not want to provoke it. The hounds were very clever. They realized that if the four big bosses did not dare to provoke Ah Meng, they would not dare to do so either.
The truck drove into the villa. Big Quinn's wife, Rosalind, was waiting for him with the three children. When they saw him, the three children hung onto him like monkeys.
Next was a tender moment. Godzilla went to visit Victoria with gifts, Brother Wolf went to see his recovering daughter, and Lu Guan went to see his big golden retriever.
Hans also wanted to slip away. He said, "I miss my sister very much. I want to see her."
"No, the two of us have to clean up these books," Li Du said firmly.
Hans suddenly lost his spirit. He said listlessly, "Do we have to do this work?"
Li Du said, "Maybe there is something valuable in these books. We have to take a good look. "
Big Ivan got into the car to unload the books. When he heard Li Du's words, he took out a comic book that looked like it had been well kept. He handed it to them and said, "Yes, look, this book looks like a valuable item."
Hans accepted it with a smile and gave it a glance. Next, his eyes widened.
He held the book in one hand and his cell phone in the other. He complained that the cell phone was too slow, so he shouted at Lu Guan, "Let go of your d * mn dog and bring my computer out! Hurry up! "
Li Du went over to take a look and said, "No way, you are too into the character."
The comic book looked a little interesting. The red cover was dark, and there was a drawing of Spiderman swinging out of a tall building with a boy in his arms. There were cars on the street below.
The numbers 1962 were written in the upper right corner of the comic book, and 12 cents was written in the lower left corner. On top of Spiderman's head, the letters' Marvel 'were printed — Marvel Magazine.
Hans said, "What do you mean by getting into character? I'm really anxious. This seems to be the first issue of Spiderman magazine in 1962. If it is, it will be very valuable. "
"Tens of millions of dollars?" Li Du asked expectantly.
Hans rolled his eyes at him. "How is that possible? It's just a few hundred thousand or even a million."
He took out the computer and quickly searched the Internet. Then, a piece of news appeared on the Internet. There was a photo in the news, and in the photo was the book in their hands.
The headline of the news was: 'Spiderman' Robbed Paris Auction, Comic Connect 'Lost' 1.2 million.
The content of the news introduced the situation of this comic book. At last year's Paris auction, this Marvel Comics magazine with Spiderman's first appearance on it was taken out. Comic Connect bought it for 1.2 million dollars and brought it back to be the treasure of the museum!
After reading the news, Hans carefully opened the wrapping paper and looked at the comic book.
After reading the publication page, he could not help but shake his fist. "Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's great! That's it! 1.2 million dollars! 1.2 million dollars! "
Li Du was shocked. "Really? Someone is really willing to pay more than a million dollars for a comic book? "
The most expensive book he had ever seen was the set of National Geographic that he had collected, which could be worth tens of millions.
But there were more than a thousand of them, and many of them were unique. In his opinion, National Geographic was a history that belonged to the history of all mankind, and comics could not be compared to it.
Now, the appearance of this comic book had broken his common sense. A magazine, and a magazine that had only been published for 50 years, was worth more than a million dollars?!
More than a million dollars was not the highest price. They continued to collect the comics, and a few other magazines that were equally or even more valuable appeared.
One of them was "Superman," the first issue of the "Superman" comic book. On the cover, Superman was wearing his iconic red cape, blue tights, and red underpants. He was running against the wind, looking very cool.
In the middle of the cover of the magazine was the words "Action Comics # 1," which meant the first issue.
Hans stroked the old comic book and said, "This is history. We are witnessing history, guys. This is the beginning of the birth of the American hero! We are looking at a baby picture of an American hero! "
Li Du asked, "Is it valuable? Look at the introduction on the Internet. How much can it sell for? "
Hans said, "There are no transaction records on the Internet. There are at most ten copies of 'Action Comics # 1' in the world. Even DC Comics does not have it. Oh, they used to have it, but it was stolen!"
Li Du said optimistically, "So it should be worth a lot of money, right?"
"Let's put it this way. Brother, this book is priceless!" Hans said in an amazed tone. "There are no transaction records of the original comic book on the Internet, but there is information on the auction of the reprinted edition of this book. One book sold for 1.8 million dollars!"
Li Du was shocked by the price. "Even the reprinted edition is worth that much? Are these comic book collectors crazy? "
Hans said, "The high price is mainly due to its theme. Superman is an iconic character. He is the first superhero in human history!"
Li Du shook his head. "No, as early as the Ming Dynasty, our China had the superhero Sun Wukong. This is the first superhero in American history."
Hans shouted, "Who cares whose first superhero it is? Anyway, it is valuable. It is very, very valuable!"
Li Du carefully untied the wrapping paper and took the book out.
There was a price on the cover. It was published in June 1938. When it was first published, it was 10 cents.
Hans shouted, "Be careful, be careful!" as he continued to look for information about the comic book.
The first issue of "Action Comics # 1" was known as the Holy Grail of the comics world. It was said that there were 50 copies in existence in the world, but there were less than ten official records. They were either in the hands of major comic publishers or the rich.
In addition, they had a hand-drawn copy of the "Fantastic Four" comic book with Stan Lee's signature on it. This comic book was also very valuable. Stan Lee's hand-drawn comics were usually stored in the museum of Marvel Comics and were rarely seen by the public.
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